Envisioning Urban Futures: How Scenario-Based Modeling Can Shape Adaptive and Sustainable Pathways to Climate Resilience Speaker: Dr. Georgina Sanchez, Research Scholar and Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State Introduction by: To be announced. Summary: Geospatial modeling provides a means to explore and visualize growth trajectories that align with the evolving needs of our…
The MGIST Digital Symposium is an opportunity for our graduating professional master’s students to present their Capstone projects to the geospatial community at NC State and beyond. This includes student peers, alumni, faculty and staff from across the university, and our community and industry partners. This is a tremendous professional development and networking opportunity for our…
Spatiotemporal Impacts of Urban Rail Systems on Residential and Commercial Areas Speaker: Dr. Eleni Bardaka, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), and CGA Faculty Fellow Introduction by: Dr. Ashly Cabas, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), and CGA Faculty Fellow Summary: Forthcoming. About the speaker: Forthcoming.
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. students will share current research in a series of short talks. Speakers: > Christina Perella – Climate as Push and Pull: Forecasting Movement of US Populations (co-advised by Dr. Adam Terando and Dr. Jelena Vukomanovic) Abstract: Human choices and preferences shape and impact landscapes. Historically, migration has been driven in large part by push…
Liberatory Innovation: Critical GIS as a Tool for Civic Imagination Speaker: Nick Okafor, Founder and Executive Director @ trubel&co, and doctoral student at Stanford University Hosted by: Dr. Aaron Hipp, Professor of Community Health and Sustainability, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, and Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Geospatial Analytics Summary:…
You’re invited to a special event at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University on May 22, 2025, as part of the GRASS Developer Summit Raleigh 2025. We’ll kick things off at 4:00 PM with a series of fast-paced GRASS Lightning Talks by speakers from mundialis, Natrx, Bohannan Huston, government, and academia, showcasing…
Monitoring Dryland Ecosystem Function with Multi-Source and Multi-Scale Remote Sensing Speaker: Dr. Matt Dannenberg, Associate Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Iowa Hosted by: Dr. Chris Jones, Senior Research Staff and Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State Summary: Drylands make up ~40% of Earth’s land surface and are home to…
From Software Distribution to Species Distribution: an Engineer’s Journey into Marine Spatial Ecology Speaker: Mr. Jason Roberts, Associate in Research, Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University Hosted by: Dr. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl, Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and CGA Faculty Fellow Summary: Species distribution models increasingly drive regulatory and policy decisions…
Urban Heterogeneity Measurements, Forecasts, and Uses Speaker: Dr. Christa Brelsford, Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hosted by: Dr. Mollie Gaines, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, FER Summary: How do we measure connectivity in urban environments? How much heterogeneity in urban environments is to be expected? To what extent is the built environment shaped by socioeconomic processes,…
Leveraging Geospatial Analytics for Watershed-Scale Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance and Pesticides Speaker: Dr. Jacelyn Rice-Boayue, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, and CGA Faculty Fellow Introduction by: Dr. Georgina Sanchez, CGA’s Director of Research Engagement Summary: Municipal wastewater discharges are an increasingly important resource amid climate-driven water stress, but also a significant…
Virtual symposium with posters viewable online from 2pm Dec 10 until 2pm Dec 11. The MGIST Digital Symposium is an opportunity for our graduating professional master’s students to present their Capstone projects to the geospatial community at NC State and beyond. This includes student peers, alumni, faculty and staff from across the university, and our…
Exploring Urban Landscape Connectivity for Pollinators Using Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models (A Sabbatical Adventure) Speaker: Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, and CGA Faculty Fellow, North Carolina State University Introduction by: Dr. Georgina Sanchez, CGA’s Director of Research Engagement Summary: TBD About the speaker: Elsa Youngsteadt is an associate professor in the…